Show AN ATS reviews THE ACTS AND hio blo MOTIVES TIVES ofa OF i tue TUB CRUSADERS AND GIVES i nis HIS OPINION OF THE trip i sevier county I 1 i july 1885 Q 1 editor deseret news I 1 find that you have hava kindly favored my ray w weak ak attempt at penning a few items that have passed through my mind with space in the columns of the NEWS since the appearance of my article ot of june 25 many have wondered who it could have been that dared to DESERT ahe TUE manks MINKS OF tue TUB libe lide LIBERALS and speak a word in favor of the mormons cormons Mor mons 11 I 1 am not as many suppose a mormon lormon A but do profess to entertain a deep sympathy in behalf of your y 0 ur persecuted people and feel iu in my heart that I 1 could take the ringleaders ring leaders of lour Jour your persecutors by their fore lore tops and 1 jerk them to that very hot place that is so much preached about by christian divines I 1 aill will keep the public under conjecture no longer as to who I 1 am my aly name is william stebbins bl and I 1 hail bail from rising sun indiana J was taught in ny early youth by an angel of a mother and a sainted sll sil father to consider that all mankind had an unbounded right to worship almighty god in accordance with their several consciences I 1 am now over 50 years of age and still hold to the early training of equal rights to all men and injustice to none I 1 Iwa was also salso taught to consider that the holy bible a book that all christendom profess to believe in contained the word and commandments of god given to his children here upon the earth as a guide to their footsteps while traveling through h this world of tears and sorrow but I 1 must confess that to me m e there are many things that are as dark as mud mn mr 1 editor while I 1 am silting beneath the ever inviting shade of a black locust tree imm ed lately upon the scenes floating before my minds eye alter perusing your DESERET NEWS of july lath I 1 cannot refrain from tears of of half sympathy and half halt anger ancer to see the tyranny imposed upon your people by those who have sworn to deal out even justice not to you only as but to all with whom they may co come me in con eon contact t act in their official career I 1 feel a deep sympathy toward you when I 1 see how bow tamely you submit to the decisions of A tyrannical only I 1 believe that the pharaoh of old was in possession of a few more grains of the sand of humanity hun anity than have hake the Phara phar pharaohs a that are sitting upon the judicial lb enches benches in your midst to arrest almost almost invariably means incarceration what is ig it for Is this tirade against you solely to put down polygamy poly arny no it is not but to drain train yo your ur pockets ekens of your valuables your raide raiders pT allege that you I 1 in your practise tise are vile indecent and corrupt I 1 can truthfully declare that the assertions are as base and false as satan I 1 speak from experience and from m moy roy y own personal knowledge and I 1 am a m led to exclaim oh ye mormon persecutors clean your own dishes before you yon make an attempt to clean the platters of your nel neighbors which are far cleaner than YO you yon a can make them enact laws to put down and sweep out the filth that has collected and Is adhering to your own skirts Orta or take kethe the admon admonition ifton contained in the new testament where ft it is said cast out first the beam out of thine own eye and then thou see clearly I 1 to P pull puli ul I 1 the mote that is in thy brothers eye I 1 mr air editor will you please explain to me how it can be po possible s sibie sinie for a man to hold unlawful cohabitation with his own lezalla and lawfully wedded wife or wives what does the word cohabitation mean bly my definition for the word is to live lire or dwell together if I 1 am wrong in the definition please correct me in the columns of your paper in reading the account aunt a of di the interview of mr mi F A bro wn who was ar reste leste dand arraigned before his majesty on the judicial bench under the charge of unlawful cohabitation with his own wives notice his bis own wives noc the wives of another man roan but his own dear and loving wives my heart was touched with the deepest sympathy yet I 1 could not help held but out ADMIRE nis urs PLUCK when he made the assertion that his wives have borne him child renand had ever proved true to him a and noi not rat rattier ler jer than forsake any of his hi S family and cast them off he would suffer his head to be severed from his body you affirm aa as a people I 1 speak of you as a people in iri general not as individuals divi Ivi ivl duals for I 1 find fin d some individuals that bear the name of mormon but deport themselves in my ray opinion to the reverse that plural marriage was and is a commandment from god this I 1 cannot I 1 dare not deny for I 1 reason in this manner if god goa commanded his people to perform certain duties anciently has be he become powerless that ile he cannot do the same today da iiii I 1 will say in conclusion that if the work in which you are engaged Is not of G god V it will fall to the ground round but if it Is of god all hell cannot over enrow it I 1 will now stop for tor fear of be being g irksome you may hear from me again respectfully WM STEBBINS PS I 1 won would id adda word or two more as an admonition to your crusaders and andio to Y you 0 u also as a people namely take the good old bible bibie bib people e turn to the last chapter of malachi and read it cacek carefully ully and attentively and see what the word of god is as there laid down ajr far tb the wicked and it you are P pie eyou you claim to be see what is in store for those who love and fear god those who live in glass houses should be careful how they cast stones lest they break their own windows my aly object object in writing tin tID this articles article articie ls isto to speak 0 of you son as I 1 find nad you I 1 have ever found a hearty welcome amon amod among you your r pe people ope and after be coining becoming acquainted qua quain i rite lite ted d with you I 1 feel perfectly saie site both botn oth in period and antl anti property it I 1 had a marriageable da daughter or sister or other female relative lv I 1 would not fear tear to entrust her to the care of the mor mons I 1 I 1 who are real true blue to their professions I 1 am desirous deg irous of allaying allay ids ins some of the P prejudice re judice arrayed a against dinst you by those who are only acquainted with you through false reports of alleged enemies W S |